Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS (Migration, Modern Platforms )

Description Presidio, Where Teamwork and Innovation Shape the Future AtPresidio, we're at the forefront of a global technology revolution, transforming industries throughcutting-edge digital solutions and next-generation AI. We empower businesses-and their customers-to achieve more through innovation, automation, and intelligent insights. The Role: Sr Solutions Architect We are seeking an AWS Pre-Sales Solution Architect to expand our Solutions Architecture team, working within an industry-specific vertical to drive technical pre-sales excellence and customer success. This role blends hands-on solution architecture with people management, focusing on enhancing team expertise, standardizing best practices, and delivering high-quality, technical solutions tailored to clientenvironments. * Develop client-facing deliverables - including high-level solution summaries, proposals, staffing models, Statements of Work (SOWs), and responses to RFPs/RFIs - translating complex cloud architectures into clear, commercially sound engagements. * Lead the scoping of workshops, assess, mobilize, and execution of migrating on-premises applications and legacy data centers to AWS. * Design robust cloud security, identity, and access management (IAM) strategies, ensuring adherence to industry regulatory and compliance standards. * Drive infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like AWS CloudFormation or Terraform to build automated CI/CD pipelines. * Act as a subject matter expert and managing the sales cycle from requirements gathering to handoff to delivery. * Own the proposal approval lifecycle - coordinating cross-functional review cycles, managing internal stakeholder sign-off, and ensuring all client-facing deliverables meet Presidio's quality and standards. * Develop and implement standardized methodologies for solution design, deployment, and optimization, incorporating industry-specific frameworks. * 7+ years of relevent experience * 5+ years of experience in solutions architecture, technical pre-sales, delivery, or similar customer-facing technical roles. * 3+ years of experience in delivery and pre-sales of consulting and advisory services for strategic solutions such as IT strategy, Application Placement, and Cloud Governance * Deep AWS expertise across core services (EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, Lambda, EKS, etc.), with strong working knowledge of container orchestration (EKS, ECS), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation), and AWS Well-Architected principles. * Exceptional communication and executive presence - able to command the room with both technical architects and C-suite stakeholders, translating complex AWS solutions into compelling business value narratives. * Strong cloud migration and modernization background - including experience architecting lift-and-shift, re-platform, and re-architect solutions across diverse enterprise environments and industries. * Solid understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, and modern application architectures - including microservices, serverless, and event-driven patterns on AWS - enabling credible, forward-looking solution conversations with clients. * Experience in solution design methodologies and technical best practices that drive consistency and quality across the team. Required Technical Skills: * Expert-level knowledge of AWS core services: EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, Lambda, EKS, ECS, IAM, CloudWatch, Route 53, and AWS Organizations. * Proficiency in AWS Well-Architected Framework across all five pillars. * Hands-on experience designing multi-account, multi-region AWS architectures for enterprise environments. * Demonstrated experience architecting cloud migration strategies including lift-and-shift, re-platform, and re-architect approaches. * Familiarity with AWS or third party migration tooling. * Experience using AWS Pricing Calculator and building cost models for clie